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As your organization grows, you need the ability to quickly and non-disruptively scale storage capacity to meet the increasing amounts of high-density graphic images, streaming media and other unstructured data. However, when using traditional storage methods, it can be complicated and expensive for you to scale capacity to meet your needs.
In this second of a series of informative e-books from Exablox, we take a look at the di?iculties of traditional storage approaches, and o?er simple, practical ways to make your data storage easier to scale.

The complex high availability and storage management of data is difficult. In this fifth of a series of informative e-books from Exablox, we take a look at the challenges of storage availability , and offer simple, practical ways that you can make sure you can always
access your data.

Your information is a core business asset and differentiator. But traditional data storage can add costs disproportionate to its potential value. How can you drive down your total cost of ownership and eliminate unnecessary costs, without compromising enterprise class features?
Eliminate storage costs that undermine the business value of your organization’s information. In this fourth of a series of informative e-books from Exablox, we take a look at the costs of traditional storage approaches, and offer simple, practical ways that you can cut these costs while getting more for your money.

Traditional storage management can be complex, confusing, and and configuration involved can be overwhelming. Scaling and replication can often be time consuming and frustrating, if not practically impossible. The time and complexity required can drive small and midsize businesses to engage expert consultants just to manage their data storage solution and optimize it for their application requests.
You’ve got more on your plate to manage than just storage. In this third of a series of informative e-books from Exablox, we take a look at the difficulties of traditional storage approaches, and offer simple, practical ways to make your data storage easier to manage.

Infrastructure simplification is a concept popping up very often lately with IT managers across all kinds of organizations. But it’s nothing new for small, and budget constrained IT shops that have
always looked at ways of keeping their infrastructure simple, very manageable and highly serviceable. Unalaska City School District (UCSD) is no exception; in fact, its needs are even more constrained due to its particular position on the map.
Located on the Aleutian Chain, approximately 800 air miles southwest of Anchorage, Alaska, Unalaska is home to 4,000 permanent residents and boasts the U.S’s most productive commercial fishing port of Dutch Harbor, which is also well-known as the home of successful TV show “The Deadliest Catch”.
Accessible only by airplane or boat, there are no roads to Unalaska. The deep water and ice-free International Port of Dutch Harbor serves cargo ships and large container vessels throughout the year, making this port one of the busiest transportation hubs in t

When it comes to the increasingly complex task of managing data storage, many small and midsize organizations face even greater challenges than large, global enterprises.
Small and midsize companies have ever-increasing volumes of information to manage and secure, and they are confronting a number of difficulties when it comes to storage. Among the biggest hurdles:
›› Scaling storage as the business grows rapidly
›› Meeting the rising expense of data storage capacity
›› Dealing with the complexity of management and architecture
›› Devoting precious staff time managing storage and data backup
Whereas larger organizations have significant IT budgets and staff to handle storage-related challenges, small and midsize companies lack the IT resources to dedicate to storage management. Fortunately, there are new approaches to data storage on the market that can help such companies address their data storage needs without requiring dedicated storage management resources, while at the same ti

Object-based storage (referred to as OBS throughout this document) platforms continue to perpetuate cloud and enterprise IT infrastructure. As businesses move toward petabyte-scale data storage, OBS solutions are turning out to be the right choice for balancing scale, complexity, and costs. By way of their core design principles, OBS platforms deliver unprecedented scale at reduced complexity and reduced costs over the long term. Early OBS platforms suffered from "necessity crisis," were too
cumbersome to deploy and, in some cases, caused a platform lock-in because of their proprietary access mechanisms. In spite of their from-the-ground-up design, a departure from how traditional SAN and NAS arrays are deployed and, more importantly, a lack of standard interfaces made it difficult for
IT organizations to deploy OBS solutions in the infrastructure. Thanks to Amazon S3 and OpenStack Swift becoming de facto access interfaces, this situation has changed.

This IDC Buyer Case Study looks at the approach Exablox has taken in capitalizing on the object - based storage platform opportunity and the use of the Exablox OneBlox technology by the Balboa Park Online Collaborative (BPOC). IDC recently spoke with Jason Quinn, director of Information Technology for the Balboa Park Online Collaborative, whose charter is to further the technology objectives of the Balboa Park Online Collaborative and the institutions in Balboa Park.